A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities: A Collection of Puzzles, Oddities, Riddles, and Dilemmas 9780199829569

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Автор: Sorensen Roy
Название: A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities: A Collection of Puzzles, Oddities, Riddles, and Dilemmas
Перевод названия: Рой Соренсен: Кабинет философских курьезов
ISBN: 9780199829569
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Классификация: ISBN-10: 019982956X
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 288
Вес: 0.45 кг.
Дата издания: 05.05.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 211 x 147 x 33
Ссылка на Издательство: Link
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Will you answer this question in the same way that you will answer my next question? Done? Good
Will you buy this book?. Inside you will discover that your only truthful answer to this second question is affirmative.
Logic has made some men rich. Inside this book you will learn of John Eck (who debated Luther in 1519). He Will you answer this question in the same way that you will answer my next question? Done? Good Will you buy this book? Inside you will discover that your only truthful answer to this second question is affirmative.
A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities is a colorful collection of puzzles and paradoxes, both historical and contemporary, by philosopher Roy Sorensen. Taking inspiration from Ian Stewarts Professor Stewarts Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, which assembled interesting maths from outside the classroom into a miscellany of marvels, these puzzles are ready to be enjoyed independently but gain mutual support when read in clusters. The volume ranges from simple examples to anomalous anomalies, considers data that seems to confirm a generalization while lowering its probability, and argues that we are doomed to believe infinitely many contradictions-and that the pain of contradictions can be profoundly stimulating.Inside this book you will learn of John Eck, who debated Luther in 1519. He devised a sequence of contracts that sidestepped usury laws, and German bankers made a fortune from this Triple Contract. Sorensen also recounts how Voltaire set himself up for life by exploiting a fallacy in the construction of a Parisian lottery. There is logic for altruists, too. You will discover how General Benjamin Butler used other-centric reasoning to protect runaway slaves. There are historical snapshots of logic in action, and the book contains tributes to Lewis Carroll, Arthur Prior, and Peter Geach. In addition to short essays, there are dialogues, cures and insults.

A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities: A Collection of Puzzles, Oddities, Riddles, and Dilemmas, Sorensen Roy